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New Jersey Stage:
Daily Edition 10-02-17




Here is the morning update for New Jersey Stage for 10-02-17.

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theatre

Aspire Performing Arts Company To Present "Newsies JR!"

(WAYNE, NJ) -- Open the gates and seize the day! Aspire Performing Arts Company is currently in the final weeks of rehearsals for its upcoming pilot production of Newsies JR.! ​Aspire is once again partnering with Music Theatre International (MTI) and Disney Theatrical Group on a special pilot production - the musical has been adapted for young performers and Aspire will be one of the first theatre companies to produce the show prior to its official release. The pilot process allows MTI and Disney to fine-tune the script, music, and materials before the rights become available to schools and theatres.

Playwright Freyda Thomas To Take Part in Talk Back At Centenary Stage

(HACKETTSTOWN, NJ) -- Playwright Freyda Thomas will join the cast and artistic team of the Centenary Stage Company on Sunday, October 8 for a special “talk back” with the audience following the matinee performance of the comedy The Learned Ladies which Thomas adapted from Moliere’s original.

Lord Stirling Theater Company To Present "Arsenic and Old Lace"

(BASKING RIDGE, NJ) -- The Lord Stirling Theater Company will present Joseph Kesselring’s farcical dark comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, in the English Barn Theater at the Farmstead Arts Center in Basking Ridge, NJ. Performance take place October  6-8 and October 13-15.  In the play, drama critic Mortimer Brewster has just gotten engaged when he discovers that his sweet and lovable spinster aunties have a deadly secret involving lonely old men and elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide.  

music

The Early November To Perform "The Room's Too Cold" At White Eagle Hall

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- New Jersey-based emo rockers, The Early November, make their Jersey City debut with a very special concert:  playing  in its entirety their critically acclaimed first full-length album, The Room's Too Cold, at White Eagle Hall, October 20th at 8:00pm, doors are at 7:00pm.  Tickets range from $18.00 - $23.39.

NJSO Chamber Players To Perform Free Program of Broadway Favorites

(CLIFTON, NJ) -- The NJSO Chamber Players perform a free program of popular Broadway tunes from West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Lion King and more on Thursday, October 12, at 7:30pm at Clifton School #3 in Clifton. The event is part of the Clifton Centennial Concert Series and is sponsored by the PSEG Foundation.

God Only Knows

In 1965 The Beatles released Rubber Soul, an eclectic mix of songs influenced by folk psychedelia and even African-American soul music after returning from their North American Tour. At the same time Brian Wilson, the creative force behind The Beach Boys was taking time off from the road due to intense anxiety attacks to focus purely on writing and recording music. Seeing Rubber Soul as the first complete album he was set on creating the best album ever made. Most have argued, and I personally tend to agree, that full length LP’s (that’s a 33 and 1/3 RPM 12-inch record kids, ask your parents) were mostly two or three good songs and ten pieces of filler. Rubber Soul was a collection of all good songs that thematically fit together and with Brian’s 1966 artistic masterpiece Pet Sounds the concept album was born. 

Stormin' Norman Take You Inside SONY Studios In Nashville With His Latest Video

If you ever wondered what it looks like inside a top recording studio, Stormin' Norman Seldin's video for "The Making of Looking For An Angel" will give you the answer.  The video takes you inside the control room at SONY Studios in Nashville where the S.O.A.P. (Sound of Asbury Park) legend's latest single is recorded by fellow Asbury sound creator Doc Holiday with help from his Nashville Studio "A" Team.

"The Heart & Soul Queen of New Orleans" with Irma Thomas, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and The Preservation Legacy Quintet Come To Grunin Center

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Touring together for the first time, Preservation Hall & Columbia Artists present “The Heart & Soul Queen of New Orleans” featuring Irma Thomas, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and The Preservation Legacy Quintet onTuesday, November 7 at 7:30pm. For one night only, this outstanding group of jazz greats will treat audiences to a special evening filled with musical collaborations and traditional standards on the Main Stage, Grunin Center, Ocean County College Main Campus, College Drive, Toms River, NJ.  

New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera Announces Cast and Creative Team for Puccini's Tosca

(FORT LEE, NJ) -- Lucine Amara, Artistic Director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, announces the cast performing in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca on Sunday, October 15, 2017.  Under Amara, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s finest performers of Tosca, Verismo Opera, the Bergen Performing Arts Center's (bergenPAC) house opera company in Englewood, New Jersey, presents the opera at 3:00pm.

Jeff Crespi Rocks the Shore - Sep 29, 2017

This week Jeff provides pics of Stevie Van Zandt from the PNC Bank Arts Center where he was joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen.

Asbury Park Legend Leon Trent Releases "Hangin On By A Thread"

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- New Jersey's own James Brown - Leon Trent - has recorded his latest release "Hangin On By A Thread" at SONY Studios in Nashville, TN.  Trent, one of "The Creators of S.O.A.P." (the Sound of Asbury Park) had his record produced by fellow Asbury legend and Creator, Doc Holiday - a three-time Nashville Universe Award "Producer of the Year" and his Nashville Studio "A" Team.

Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience To Come To Prudential Center In September 2018

(NEWARK, NJ) -- The critically acclaimed Game of Thrones® Live Concert Experience Featuring Ramin Djawadi will bring the world of Westeros to arenas across Europe starting in May of 2018. Additionally, due to popular demand, a second North American leg of the tour has been added for the Fall of 2018, including a stop at Prudential Center on September 26, 2018 giving fans the opportunity to watch in wonder as famed composer Ramin Djawadi leads an orchestra and choir performing music from all seven seasons of the iconic, Emmy® Award-winning HBO series. The new dates for the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience Featuring Ramin Djawadi will include new music and footage from Season 7, as well a new custom stage design and mesmerizing visuals courtesy of state of the art video technology. 

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

(NEWARK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Xian Zhang present Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, November 2–5 in Newark, Princeton and New Brunswick. Conrad Tao, a 22-year-old rising star The Philadelphia Inquirer calls “a stunning soloist,” joins the Orchestra for Bartók’s energizing Third Piano Concerto. The program opens with Beethoven’s Overture to Coriolan. 

ROCK ON! This Week's Sound Bites....9/28/17

"We're looking at a new record at the beginning of next year. This time around though it's my solo stuff;  just a piano and me. There is such a dynamic range in the music which allows me to do things vocally that I can't do with my band," says lead singer and front man of Blues Traveler John Popper as he readies for an appearance at the Union County PAC on Saturday September 30.

film

"Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History" To Premiere On October 6

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, will have its theatrical debut at Landmark Loew's Theater in Jersey City on Friday, October 6 at 7:00pm.  Based on Helen Stapinski’s blockbuster memoir of the same title, the Five-Finger Discount documentary premiered on public television in 2017. The film relates Helene’s saga of growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, in a family nearly overrun with crooks, corrupt politicians, mobster wannabes and murderers. It takes the viewer inside Helene’s struggle to confront her family legacy and invent a new identity – without losing where she comes from and the people she loves.

dance

The Calpulli Mexican Dance Company to perform "Day of the Dead" in Red Bank

(RED BANK, NJ)  -- The Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, a Queens-based troupe whose mission celebrates the rich diversity of Mexican and Mexican-American cultural heritage through dance-based programming and live music, will team with the nonprofit Count Basie Theatre for a series of Mexican dance classes and a celebration of Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday, or “Dia de los Muertos.”

art

Betty Zinefest 2017 To Take Place In Newark On October 7

(NEWARK, NJ) -- The Bettys, an independent art collective, and two of Newark’s major arts institutions, Gallery Aferro and Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark, along with supporters Women and Gender Studies Program at Rutgers-Newark University and Express Newark’s Newark Print Shop and Shine Portrait Studio, present Betty Zinefest 2017, which is free to attend with all welcome.   The event takes place on October 7 from 11:00am to 4:00pm at Express Newark (54 Halsey Street). 

community

iPlay America Opens Virtual Reality Arena - The First Of Its Kind In NJ

(FREEHOLD, NJ) --  iPlay America is introducing the first Virtual Reality Arena of its kind in New Jersey this weekend. iPlay America’s VR Arena features a new type of Virtual Reality – “Active VR” – which allows players to walk and run inside the VR Arena and gives players full freedom of movement in each virtual world using omnidirectional treadmills.



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